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Revelation 12
Two signs fill the sky: a woman clothed with the sun, crowned with twelve stars, in labor; and a red dragon with seven heads waiting to devour her child. The boy who will rule with an iron rod is snatched to God's throne, and the woman flees to the wilderness for 1,260 days. Verse 7 cuts to open war in heaven: Michael casts the dragon down. Notice how the saints below are said to conquer him.
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A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
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She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
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Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.
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His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
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She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God and to his throne.
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The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.
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There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.
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They didn’t prevail. No place was found for them any more in heaven.
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The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
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I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
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They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
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Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.”
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When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.
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Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
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The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
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The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
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The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.
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Y UNA grande señal apareció en el cielo: una mujer vestida del sol, y la luna debajo de sus pies, y sobre su cabeza una corona de doce estrellas.
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Y estando preñada, clamaba con dolores de parto, y sufría tormento por parir.
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Y fué vista otra señal en el cielo: y he aquí un grande dragón bermejo, que tenía siete cabezas y diez cuernos, y en sus cabezas siete diademas.
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Y su cola arrastraba la tercera parte de las estrellas del cielo, y las echó en tierra. Y el dragón se paró delante de la mujer que estaba para parir, á fin de devorar á su hijo cuando hubiese parido.
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Y ella parió un hijo varón, el cual había de regir todas las gentes con vara de hierro: y su hijo fué arrebatado para Dios y á su trono.
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Y la mujer huyó al desierto, donde tiene lugar aparejado de Dios, para que allí la mantengan mil doscientos y sesenta días.
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Y fué hecha una grande batalla en el cielo: Miguel y sus ángeles lidiaban contra el dragón; y lidiaba el dragón y sus ángeles,
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Y no prevalecieron, ni su lugar fué más hallado en el cielo.
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Y fué lanzado fuera aquel gran dragón, la serpiente antigua, que se llama Diablo y Satanás, el cual engaña á todo el mundo; fué arrojado en tierra, y sus ángeles fueron arrojados con él.
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Y oí una grande voz en el cielo que decía: Ahora ha venido la salvación, y la virtud, y el reino de nuestro Dios, y el poder de su Cristo; porque el acusador de nuestros hermanos ha sido arrojado, el cual los acusaba delante de nuestro Dios día y noche.
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Y ellos le han vencido por la sangre del Cordero, y por la palabra de su testimonio; y no han amado sus vidas hasta la muerte.
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Por lo cual alegraos, cielos, y los que moráis en ellos. ¡Ay de los moradores de la tierra y del mar! porque el diablo ha descendido á vosotros, teniendo grande ira, sabiendo que tiene poco tiempo.
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Y cuando vió el dragón que él había sido arrojado á la tierra, persiguió á la mujer que había parido al hijo varón.
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Y fueron dadas á la mujer dos alas de grande águila, para que de la presencia de la serpiente volase al desierto, á su lugar, donde es mantenida por un tiempo, y tiempos, y la mitad de un tiempo.
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Y la serpiente echó de su boca tras la mujer agua como un río, á fin de hacer que fuese arrebatada del río.
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Y la tierra ayudó á la mujer, y la tierra abrió su boca, y sorbió el río que había echado el dragón de su boca.
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Entonces el dragón fué airado contra la mujer; y se fué á hacer guerra contra los otros de la simiente de ella, los cuales guardan los mandamientos de Dios, y tienen el testimonio de Jesucristo.
How the dragon is overcome
Heaven's voice names the dragon plainly: "the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan." His defeat is not by force but by the Lamb's blood and the word of testimony, by martyrs who "didn't love their life, even to death."
Cast to earth with "but a short time," the dragon turns on the woman, then on the rest of her offspring who keep God's commandments. This frames the two beasts of chapter 13 as the dragon's agents in that war.
Context layers
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- Ephesians 2:1-10Key passage connected to Salvation.
- Acts 4:10-12Key passage connected to Salvation.
- Titus 3:4-7Key passage connected to Salvation.
- Mark 1:14-15Key passage connected to Kingdom of God.
- Matthew 13:31-33Key passage connected to Kingdom of God.
- Luke 17:20-21Key passage connected to Kingdom of God.
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